caught on camera keeps police in the spotlight. a push to -- the ransom they demanded for foley's life. new information about a failed secret mission to capture him. we are live in iraq with the latest on that. welcome to "early start." a lot of development this is morning. i'm christine romans. >> i'm victor blackwell in for john berman. tensions remain high, but calm is slowly being restored in ferguson. another night of mostly peaceful protests in the missouri town. a steamy rain keeping crowds down. eric holder met with community leaders and the family of michael brown, the unarmed teen whose death touched off nearly two weeks of violence. >> hopefully, we'll have a calming influence on the area.

if people know a federal, thorough investigation is being done. >> meanwhile, prosecutors have begun presenting evidence to a grand jury to determine whether the officer who shot and killed michael brown should be criminally charged. stephanie elam is live in ferguson for us. what are the people there saying about the attorney general's visit? >> reporter: from the people i spoke to yesterday, they were happy that he was here. they were happy. they felt their voices were being heard by the higher levels of government. there's several people here who said they distrust the system here in st. louis. the attorney general is here. some people are crediting the fact we did have a much calmer evening here tonight. he made his way here, including captain ron johnson. just to put in perspective how much better last night was, there were only six arrests,

compared to 47 the night before. take a listen to how captain johnson explains how the night went, then also listen to one protester who says he got roughed up by police, but came back out last night because he thought it was important to do because of mike brown. take a listen. >> the train is good. yesterday's crowds were smaller than mondays. as i said, the crowd was smaller tonight. we also had to respond to incidents tonight. there were no molotov cocktails, no fires, no shootings. we did not see a single handgun. there were no confrontations. >> i was in a parking lot. i guess a kid through a water bottle toward a police officer and they got mad and started chasing everybody. i was with my cousin and friend. they started chasing us and we started running. we went the other way and split up. i started running. they said turn around, officers

behind my back with a taser. when i turned around, three more officers in front of me. they grabbed me and threw me on the ground. i said i didn't do anything. they cuffed me up and beat me in my head twice. >> that young man saying he was arrested and then released around 4:00 a.m. he says he was not charged with anything here. speaking to what people say is the tension between the police force and the people of ferguson here. others saying they were coming out to make sure the tension didn't boil over. it did not seem like it did. i saw an arrest take place. it was quick and swift. they won't in and were out. overall, most of the people out here were out here demonstrating peacefully, wanting to make sure that mike brown's death was not in vain and people would not forget it. still, at the same time, a lot less people out here last night. victor? >> stephanie elam for us in ferguson. thank you.

a st. louis county police officer has been relieved of his duties for pointing a rifle at peaceful protesters and threatening to kill them. the incident was caught on camera tuesday night. take a look. [ bleep ]. >> get back. get back. >> you're going to kill him. >> what's your name, sir? [ bleep ]. >> your name is go [ bleep ] yourself. hello, officer [ bleep ] yourself. a new witness is coming forward claiming michael brown never rushed the officer in the seconds before he was shot and killed. wilson claims brown taunted him and rushed him after a confrontation. listen to neighbor michael brady tell anderson cooper what he

saw. >> reporter: he was running toward the officer. did you see him running toward the officer in any way? >> no. when he was running away, no, not at all. by the time i'm coming outside, i'm thinking he's hit after i seen officers shooting at him. i'm thinking he's hit. he's turned around like he was going down. it didn't look like he was giving up. just like i'm hit, i'm going to go down now. that's what it looked like. >> reporter: that was your impression? >> yeah. >> he saw officer wilson get out of the car and immediately start firing at michael brown while trying to get away. >> another deadly force caught on camera. a 25-year-old came at police with a knife on tuesday shouting shoot me, kill me now. watch and listen as the two officers fire six shots a piece after the suspect refuses to drop his knife.

>> drop the knife. [ bleep ] [ bleep ]. >> drop the knife. oh [ bleep ]. [ gunfire ] >> oh, my god. >> obviously frozen the picture of the moment the guns were fired. the names of the officers who fired the fatal shots are being held. the police took the unusual step of releasing the video in the wake of the michael brown shooting. stay with cnn for the latest developments in ferguson. turns out the u.s. launched a secret nighttime mission to rescue abducted americans in syria this summer, but the operation failed. among the captives, president obama was hoping to save american journalist james foley.

two dozen delta force commandos raiding syria but the hostages were moved before they arrived. foley was beheaded earlier this week. according to the family, the group demanded a multimillion dollar ransom, a ransom the obama administration refused to pay. >> there has to be a common effort to extract this cancer so it does not spread. >> meanwhile, u.s. military commanders in the middle east are pushing the pentagon to step up the air wars against isis targets. nick payton walsh live in erbil there in iraq. the department of defense kept this secret up to this point. why now? >> reporter: it seems like they didn't have much of a choice,

really. the media were going to go with the story. they had to obviously confirm whether it was the case or not. very complex situation. while people want to know what efforts have been made to rescue jim foley and it's clear they were the most extreme measures the u.s. could have taken, it does complicate the possibility of further operations. a difficult decision all around there. but, as the details come out slowly, you get an idea of how complex that operation must have been. just a photograph or film of isis held there is extraordinarily hard. we have to ask people to take great risk to do that. it's very hard for the u.s. commandos to be sure the place had the hostages. it's clear they didn't. sad the information is out the u.s. special forces were active in syria for the first time. that rescue mission is going to

be hard for further rescue missions and confirms to isis it was made. it would be been hard to know. wall street journal reporting 100 million euro ransom was requested for foley. a complex situation. you start delve into the situation. the murder is something everybody thooz know as much about as possible, at the same time, a delicate balance with the other americans held. everyone's thoughts and prayers with their families. victor? >> exactly. a picture or image at the beheading. we'll see what happens. nick payton walsh, in erbil,

thank you. john and diane foley live outside their home remembering their son as a proud journalist with deep courage. >> we know jimmy is free. he's finally free. we know he's in god's hands. we know god's work and we know he's in heaven. so, we're so proud of him. we have to be. happy for him. >> we are the ones that -- >> we need the courage and the praise. >> right. >> he was an inspiration for us and for so many others. so, we miss his courage, his love. his determination. >> can't imagine what they have been through. you know, we are told they

received an e-mail from his captor saying he would be killed. the foley's say they believe isis chose to kill their son first because he symbolized the best of america. ten minutes past the hour. we are following the latest on isis and the michael brown shooting. peace talks with hamas have collapsed. we are live with what's happening right now, after the break. asian debt that recognizes the shift in the global economy. you know, the kind that capitalizes on diversity across the credit spectrum and gets exposure to frontier and emerging markets. if you convert 4-quarter p/e of the s&p 500, its yield is doing a lot better... if you've had to become your own investment expert, maybe it's time for bny mellon, a different kind of wealth manager ...and black swans are unpredictable.

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now to the renewed fighting in war ravaged gaza as prime minister, benjamin netanyahu vowing to ramp up attacks onuoha mas targ hamas targets. three top officials died in an attack. gaza is now in ruins. the u.s. says 350,000 people have been displaced in six weeks

of violence. with the damage so severe, it could take 20 years to rebuild. we have frederick pleitgen. that is under best circumstances. this is not best circumstances. the rockets are outgoing and there's no rebuilding happening. >> reporter: no, there's absolutely no rebuilding happening. there's clean up happening. the one thing that seems distant is a diplomatic solution. if you look at the situation this morning, it doesn't look as though it would be closer. what we are seeing are a lot of rocket launchers going out toward israeli territory. we have seen a lot of air strikes in the gaza area. as you mentioned, a prominent strike in the south of the gaza strip where they hit the three top hamas military commanders. the big thing we are keeping an eye on is the international airport in tel-aviv. the airport where hamas said they fired a major rocket toward

the airport. israeli defense forces say that's not the case. they have no indication rockets have been fired toward there. there is increased rocket fire in the town of eshkol, south of israel. 12 mortars launched there. one person was severely wounded. more than a dozen people have been killed here in gaza in the israeli air strikes. a lot of carnage and no solution at this point. christine? >> fred pleitgen, thank you, fred. the head of the group says there's no end in sight. the outbreak is likely to last many more months. the death toll is rising in west africa with 1200 deaths and 2200 suspected or confirmed cases. violent clashes are ricing between residents of an ebola stricken community and police.

thousands in monrovia are upset about barricades to keep them from leaving the neighborhood. the ebola virus spread to the republic of congo. several are dying there from ebola-like symptoms. let's go to california where a patient who may have contracted ebola remains in isolation in a sacramento hospital. health officials are awaiting blood tests. 17 minutes past the hour. european stocks are up. asian stocks are closed, they ended mixed after reports showing relatively weak manufacturing activity in china. u.s. stock futures are higher this hour. they are very close to records. the s&p 500 ended a few points away from an all-time high. if the early optimism holds, you

could see record territory today. i want to talk about bank of america. it's close to $16.5 billion settlement over mortgage securities fraud. the agreement could be announced today. it would be the largest settlement ever between the government and a single company. how much is $16.5 billion? it's roughly equal to the banks profits for the last three years. the government says they duped buyers into buying toxic mortgage securities before the financial crisis. it includes penalties and relief for homeowners. when we have seen the big deals or relief for mortgage deals, relief deals, people say that was five years ago. the relief for me is too little too late. >> let me tell you about a woman in idaho. terrifying ordeal. the woman is stephanie ray. she's struck by lightning during a severe thunderstorm. that's in hayden, tuesday night. her daughter captured the

incident on cell phone. see that bolt of lightning follows by a loud bang. i don't know if you can hear it over my voice. the skylights up. she's glad nothing worse happened. >> all of a sudden, everything lit up and it sounded like a gun went off. really wasn't sure what happened until two or three seconds afterward. i was like expletive, i think i got hit by lightning. >> just one expletive? she felt a tingle in her body for several hours after the lightning strike. >> i love the budweiser t-shirt. then she went in and drank a budweiser. one or six, after being struck? what an amazing thing to catch on camera. >> indra petersons has a look at the forecast. >> i'm stuck where she's talking seconds after that.

forecast wise, scattered showers across the area. jet stream staying to the north. we are going to focus on this area with a threat for severe weather today. a small threat today more likely the large hail, long, strong winds. minneapolis, des moines, cincinnati, can you talk air delays? they are are major hubs here. the line of storms making its way through. seeing showers this morning, the northeast. we continue to see the lighter, scattered showers in the northeast. the heavier storms in indiana and ohio today. two to four inches of rain. now, down to the south. it is already kind of muggy. you have all that humid air coming out of the gulf. look at the temperatures. mid to upper 90s. we haven't combined it here with the humidity factor. once you talk about the heat index, it's going to feel like triple digit heat. it is going to be a little bit milder. i want to tell you real quick,

we have a tropical storm potential out there. 50% chance in the atlantic. we are monitoring that closely. >> you get to watch that. >> one thing i love about indra is she calls this thursday is friday eve. >> yes. >> i feel better about thursdays since indra came to town. >> ahh. >> thank you. little league sensation on the mound. we have the details in the bleacher report next. moderate to severe is tough, but i've managed. i got to be pretty good at managing my symptoms, except that managing my symptoms was all i was doing. when i finally told my doctor,

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just into cnn, kent brantly, the american doctor infected with ebola will be released from emory hospital today. we are going to bring you more on "new day." he released statements saying he felt better, is getting stronger and is able to leave the hospital. >> wish him the best. little league pitching sensation mo'ne davis was in the championship with a spot on the line. >> we have the bleacher report. >> 13-year-old mo'ne davis has been the talk object little league championship. as we know, not always a good thing because of the dreaded si curse. a huge crowd was on hand to

watch her pitch. early on, she was just mowing batters down. she struck out six in 2 1/3 inning. in the end, big bats from las vegas were too good. they got the win, 8-1. mo'ne and her team will play chicago in an elimination game tonight. in the majors, brutal news for the los angeles angels. ace pitcher was going to cover first when his knee buckled and he went down. the angels are calling it a significant knee injury. the fear is, it's a torn tendon. richards will be out for the year. tony stewart will not race this weekend in tennessee. it's the third race he's skipped since he struck kevin ward jr. earlier this month. the head of stewart's racing team says he is grieving and

isn't yet ready to get back in the car. here is great news to start the morning with. jim kelly is cancer free. kelly underwent several rounds of chemotherapy for sinus cancer. doctors found in evidence of remaining cancer. guys, the kelly family has been public about his fight with cancer. he's been an inspiration to a lot of people. this is great, great news we are hearing that he is, in fact, cancer free. finally good news. thank you for bringing us that. we are following breaking news out of ferguson, missouri. overnight, protests remain peaceful as the investigation into the deadly police shooting of michael brown is continuing to ramp up. the attorney general is or was in town as the grand jury convened. what we are learning about the grand jury and the investigation moving forward. [announcer] play close-good and close.

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breaking news this morning. for the first time this week, protests peaceful in ferguson, missouri. the crowds calm. the controversy over the deadly shooting of michael brown growing. new witnesses coming forward as a grand jury convenes. we are live with the latest overnight. the demands terrorists made before the execution. the failed military mission to rescue james foley just weeks before he was killed. why so many british muslims are

rushing to join isis. live team coverage from iraq and london, ahead. welcome back to "early start." i'm victor blackwell in for john berman. >> nice to see you, i'm christine romans. it is 31 minutes past the hour. let's start in ferguson, calm and order, slowly but surely returning to po missouri. a steamy rain keeping crowds down and tempers cool. earlier in the day, attorney general, eric holder, met with the family of michael brown. it his death has touched off nearly two weeks of violence. >> hopefully have a calming influence on the area. people know that a federal, thorough investigation is being done. >> prosecutors began presenting evidence to see if the officer who shot and killed michael

brown should be charged. 24 hours ago, we were talking about hopefully the page had been turned on the violence of the protests. last night you had a calm night, stephanie. >> reporter: we did, no doubt about it. both sides were pleased with how things turned out. police were calmer on the streetings. you can see there were people from the community making sure the protesters, the marchers were following the rules. you can see that playing out. the tone was definitely different from the night before. of the people arrested, just six of them last night compared to 47 the night before. there were no confrontations, no tear gas thrown. they said there was no pepper stray used or bullets fired. take a listen to hear both sides of what the people were saying. listen to the protesters and what they thought went well and listen to the police and what they thought went well.

>> these are really the very brave, these young men are brave. they are the next freedom fighters. to me, it's refreshing to see young people get involved with this type of movement because this can spark a whole nation to look and say, hey, listen, there really is inequality in america. it's not supposed to be like that. >> we go back and look at the operational plan and see how we can make it better and do it better. part of that is when we are out in the community and talking to the citizens out there, we are listening to what they are telling us and their concerns. that goes into our thinking also. >> reporter: i also did witness several police officers talking to members of the community, having polite conversations. it didn't look like it was tense last night. i can also say earlier in the evening, right about when the thunderstorm, right before the

thunderstorm hit, there were two people who came out to show support for the police and for darren wilson, the officer who is the shooter behind the scandal here. they came out to show their support. that was not met well by the people out here protesting. the police moved in and removed those two. things resumed back to a calmer state. that was the only big brew ha ha we saw out here. overall, calm between the police and protesters. >> do we know, think about what the attorney general, eric holder, talked about with the community leaders and michael brown's family? >> reporter: people want to know their voice is being heard. there's a lot of mistrust for the st. louis political system according to the people in ferguson whether or not they are going to have their best

interests at heart. what they enjoy about the attorney general coming here is they felt they were being heard by the top levels of government. that was really well received from the people i spoke to here in ferguson and also the fact he met with the mother of michael brown as well. people are hopeful that this is going to make for an honest investigation here while at the same time we know that the evidence is going to be presented to the grand jury and they don't expect to be done with that until october. we have a lot of time until we get answers of what happened on that day. >> stephanie, thanks for that. >> a new witness is coming forward claiming michael brown never rushed officer darren wilson. officer wilson claims brown taunted him and rushed him after a confrontation. listen to a neighbor tell anderson cooper what he saw that tragic day. >> the officer's claim mike brown was running toward the

officer. did you see him running toward the officer in any way? >> no. no. not at all. like i said, by the time i come outside, i'm thinking he's now hit after i seen the officer shooting at him while he was running away. i'm thinking he's hit. now he's turned around. like this, he was going down. it didn't look like he was getting up. it just looked like, oh, i'm hit. i'm going to go down now. >> that was your impression? >> yeah. >> he says he saw officer wilson get out of the car and fire at michael brown while he was trying to get away. stay with cnn. we are covering this like no one else can. the unrest in ferguson, missouri. more on the execution of the kidnapped journalist, james foley. the demands they made before his murder and the ties to the terrorist group isis. live team coverage, next.

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the obama administration launch add secret nighttime mission to rescue american hostages in syria earlier this summer. that failed. among them, the president was hoping to save american journal ist james foley.

he was moved before u.s. forces arrived. foley was beheaded earlier this week. they demanded a multimillion dollar ransom for his release. a ransom the obama administration refused to pay. >> no just god would substantiate for what they do every single day. there has to be a way to extract this cancer so it does not spread. >> they are pushing the pentagon to step up the air war against isis targets. nick payton walsh tracking it live from erbil, iraq. they are reporting that ransom was 100 million euros, about $132 million. >> reporter: yes. i think, you know, we should remind people the u.s. government, as far as we know, has a policy of not paying ransoms with negotiating with

kidnappers. the logic is if you start paying, you encourage a business. it's a business that is well known to be exploited by isis. there are plenty of suggestions some people released is released because money changes hands, often large sums of money. dozens of westerners, foreigners held by isis. some still held. sock released. it's an extraordinarily complex situation for the u.s. government. you have a distressed family. if you start giving $130 million per american, you are funding the insurgency here. that is a tough call for the white house. this operation is a tough call as well. you are sending two dozen elite commandos in an area where you have limited visibility. they don't like cameras pointed unless they are going to pointing. they manage all the stuff they put out.

that rescue operation unsuccessful as it was, difficult to be sure if they had the targets they were looking for. the sad fact is now this information had come to light. it makes it tough down the road. further op rags down the road for the westerners still held by isis. they are not sure it would be used against them. itis the first time they have intervened when they made the operation. they want to be sure until they heard about it from the pentagon. that may make further operations tough, too. >> nick payton in erbil, thank you. the person who beheaded him has a british accent. think about that. one member of britain's parliament is estimated 1500 young muslim's from his country have been recruited by that

terror group. erin mclaughlin has more on that. there's a reason to see if the voice has been heard before in communications. >> reporter: that's right, victor. officials on both sides of the atlantic working to try to identity fi foley's murder and get every frame of the video, paying special attention to the accent. language experts saying it so d sounds as though he gulf of mexicos from southeast of long don. david cameron saying the government is going to redouble the efforts to combat this home grown extremism in the united kingdom. take a listen. >> we know that far too many british citizens traveled to iraq and syria to take part in extremism and violence. what we must do is double our efforts to stop people from going, take away passports of

those contemplating travel, to take extremist material off the internet and do everything we can to keep our people safe. that is what this government will do. >> reporter: there are between 400 to 500 british recruits in syria. unclear how many crossed into iraq. this isn't the first attack by a british national. the first suicide bomber, a 41-year-old father of three detonated a truck bomb during a prison attack. he had been from london. the family saying they had no idea he turned to extremism. they thought he went to syria on a humanitarian effort. it illustrates isis' ability to radicalize british nationals, a concern for the government here. they are concerned about the possibility of what could happen if some of these hardened

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breaking news this morning. dr. kent brantly, an american physician infected with the ebola virus will be released from atlanta's emory hospital today. that announcement on the heels of a dire outlook of the widening ebola crisis. the head of who says there's no end in sight and the outbreak is likely to last many more months. the death toll, meantime, rising in west africa. well over 1200 fatalities now. 2200 suspected or confirmed cases. violent clashes breaking out. thousands in monrovia angry about barricades designed to

keep them from leaving the neighborhood. new fears the ebola virus spread to the republic of congo. a vaccine being developed that successfully protected monkey's from an ebola-related virus. in california a patient remains in isolation in a sacramento hospital. health officials are awaiting blood tests from the centers for disease control. a friend of dzhokhar tsarnaev. a 20-year-old diaz was set to stand trial next month on obstruction and conspiracy charges. he's accused of removing backpack from his room. two teenagers facing charges

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time for an "early start" on your money this thursday. u.s. stock futures pointing higher this morning. stocks close to all-time highs. ending a few points shy of the record. european stocks higher. asian stocks ended the day mixed. violence in ukraine, unrest

between russia and ukraine. richard branson and other leaders are signing a letter asking for a peaceful solution. >> the russian economy is going to go in a steep decline. it will go back to the days of pre-cold war unless this problem is resolved quickly. >> he said he would happily sit down with vladimir putin for a compromise. after the berlin wall and the cold war, the world is going in the wrong direction. he's urging russian business leaders and vladimir putin to fix it or it will be an economic cold war. interesting. >> good to be with you this morning. >> nice to see you, victor. >> "new day" starts now. breaking overnight, ferguson

takes one step forward, one step back. protesters and police have a better night with fewer arrests. an attorney general makes his rounds. >> people know a federal, thorough investigation is being done. >> new witnesses come forward. this police officer removeed from duty. [ bleep ] [ bleep ]. >> now, this -- new video of police shooting and killing another man in st. louis. watch it and see if it shows what the cops say went down. plus, new details on the u.s. raid to try to save james foley and the ransom isis militants demanded for his release. >> a group like isil has no place in the 21st century. >> what's next in the battle against this brutal terror group. >> your "new day" starts right now. good morning. welcome to new day. it is thursday, august 21st.

we are live in ferguson, a spectacular lightning storm cooled down the situation allowing some calm to wash over the angry streets overnight. kate? >> the video is really startling. also have breaking news on one of the americans who is being treated for ebola in an atlanta hospital. could be some good news. you are going to want to hear that. let's, of course, first get back to chris. seems like a better night last night. >> and that's almost a direct quote from the police commander in charge. there was progress on the day if you look at it in balance. attorney general eric holder was here in the role of peace-maker as much as investigator trying to offer reassurance and comfort here in ferguson. he mitt with michael brown's parents and police and others, promising a fair and thorough investigation. 12 days after her son was killed, michael brown's mother was finally able to see her son's body as well. that was a